SWIM – Live success at World ATM Congress

During 3 closed-out demonstration sessions, SESAR partners met at World ATM Congress to demonstrate live the agility and flexibility System Wide Information Management (SWIM) can bring. “Now I understand what SWIM is all about” “SWIM is becoming a reality” “Excellent demonstration!” “This demonstration has shown that with very little effort you can interconnect many different… Continue reading SWIM – Live success at World ATM Congress

Air transport growth and the privacy rules… something has to give.

Information is power. Shared information is efficiency. The right information, at the right place and the right time is what air traffic management of the future needs. Whether one reads material on collaborative decision making (CDM), system-wide information management (SWIM) or any number of other papers and articles about ATM, the need for quality information,… Continue reading Air transport growth and the privacy rules… something has to give.

SWIM is more than an acronym

Major progress has been made with SESAR’s System Wide Information Management (SWIM), the intranet of the future Air Traffic Management System. At the 2nd SWIM Demonstration day, on 15 November 2012, airports, weather & volcanic ash information providers, airlines and air traffic control centres were able to exchange information instantaneously. This technical demonstration proved the… Continue reading SWIM is more than an acronym

Boeing joins SESAR as an Associate Partner to SELEX

Boeing and SELEX Sistemi Integrati, S.p.A – a Finmeccanica company- have entered into a collaboration agreement in support of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program’s development phase Boeing will cooperate with SELEX Sistemi Integrati with research in flight data modeling and data link communications for all phases of flight, and system-wide information management (SWIM).… Continue reading Boeing joins SESAR as an Associate Partner to SELEX

SESAR Interview – A Roger-Wilco Exclusive

For the second year now, as part of the preparations for ATC Global in Amsterdam, Roger-Wilco editor Steve Zerkowitz has been granted an exclusive interview with an officer of SESAR. This time he talked with the JU’s Michael Standar, Chief Strategies and International Relations about the achievements and challenges of the SESAR Program. Last year… Continue reading SESAR Interview – A Roger-Wilco Exclusive

Fact sheets on SWIM

One of the ways SESAR communicates with the world is the so-called fact-sheets. These are compact descriptions of certain aspects of the work-packages and as such provide a fairly useful source of quick reference. System Wide Information Management (SWIM) has its own set of fact-sheets, well worth a look. Check them out here.

BluSky Services and Holland Aviation Consultancy & Engineering (HACE) team up to develop advanced e-training courses

The importance of training in aviation cannot be over emphasized. This has been amply demonstrated by recent events, including the Air France A330 crash and the A380 taxi incident, in both of which pilot training issues have been identified as important contributory factors. But the need for quality training extends way beyond pilots and air… Continue reading BluSky Services and Holland Aviation Consultancy & Engineering (HACE) team up to develop advanced e-training courses

SWIM – One size does not fit all?

Whatever the context, this is a very true statement. And I hate it from the bottom of my heart. Why? Because in the area closest to my heart, air traffic management, it has been used over the years as the (rather lame) excuse for not harmonizing things, be it implementation dates, system functionality or the… Continue reading SWIM – One size does not fit all?

SWIM in SESAR

The importance of System Wide Information Management for the future ATM system is undisputed now and luckily it seems that the voices wanting to eliminate the venerable abbreviation SWIM have also lost power. Within the SESAR Program, 2 work-packages are entrusted with the development of SWIM, WP8 (“Information Management”) and WP14 (SWIM Technical Architecture”), with… Continue reading SWIM in SESAR

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Encouraging news from the SWIM front

System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is one of the mainstays of both SESAR and NextGen. It has been known for some time now that a lot of the shortcomings in air traffic management (ATM) are directly or indirectly related to poor management and limited or non-existent sharing of the sea of information actually available at… Continue reading Encouraging news from the SWIM front